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Born to Donegal parents in the English industrial city of Derby in 1961, Charles (Charlie) Lavery has chartered his own unique path to a leadership...

On the streets of Philadelphia, where history celebrates ancient voices and those first independent steps of the nation, Gaeilgeoirí Philadelphia a...

Villanova University, 30 minutes north of Philadelphia, PA, has always had an Irish connection. Founded by two Irish Augustinian friars in 1842, Ir...

Hollywood would have to bring a young Maureen O’Hara back from the past to play Chicago Fire Department Ambulance Commander Margaret Murphy. She’s ...

Jim Magee had just returned from Manhattan Criminal Court on a recent Wednesday morning when he took a moment to speak with the Irish Echo by phone...

In the nation’s capital, an online community of Irish speakers, Let’s Learn Irish, founded by Monaghan native Ronan Connolly, brings the Irish lang...

What is it about 25 years? It took about that time span for the late John Leahy to crack the nut that was America’s failure to posthumously award U...

All you need to say is, "The President asked me to be here today." This is the advice I get from my seatmate Joseph, who, unlike me, has been to th...

Boston --- On St. Patrick’s Day it is good to remember that St. Patrick was the first, and possibly the only, saint in recorded history to emphatic...

The Irish diaspora stamped itself on my heart more than a decade ago. It happened on a bright, cloudless afternoon. Gold had appeared on the trees....

The dark news ricocheted quickly throughout Ireland and across the global Irish Diaspora. On January 12 a young woman was brutally attacked and mur...

People often ask why I wrote my first novel, “Briarhill to Brooklyn: An Irish Family’s Journey to Freedom and Opportunity.” The answer is pretty si...